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enhanced_deficit
11-18-2014, 09:41 AM
Leftist militants claim responsibility for Jerusalem synagogue attack
(http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/115780/World/Region/UPDATE--Leftist-militants-claim-responsibility-for.aspx)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine says two of its members killed four Israelis at a west Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday

Tuesday 18 Nov 2014

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Israeli security personnel search a religious Jewish Yeshiva next to a synagogue, where a suspected Palestinian attack took place, in Jerusalem, November 18, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has claimed responsibility for an attack that left four people dead at a synagogue in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Al-Arabiya news reported. "The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the PFLP, announce that both attackers were PFLP members," the group said in a statement.
The PFLP is revolutionary leftist organisation founded in 1967. It was known for its armed attacks on Israeli targets and aircraft hijackings. Its armed brigade, Abu Ali Mustafa, declared responsibility for many attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
Two Palestinians armed with a gun and axes burst into a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday morning and killed four Israelis before being shot dead, in the deadliest attack in the city in years.
The attack came as months of unrest gripped the city's annexed Arab eastern sector which has resulted in a string of deadly attacks by lone Palestinians.



Three of the victims held dual US-Israeli citizenship and the fourth was a dual Israeli-British citizen (http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/live/2014/nov/18/jerusalem-synagogue-attack-live-updates#block-546b4e7ae4b0b4aa9c3fb00b)
The Americans were named as Moshe Twersky, Aryeh Kopinsky and Calman Levine. The British victim was Avraham Goldberg, who had lived in Golders Green in north London before emigrating to Israel in the 1990s. A Canadian was among the injured.
Kerry issues angry condemnation
The US has issued a forthright condemnation of the attack, AP reports.
US secretary of state John Kerry said:
Innocent people who had come to worship died in the sanctuary of a synagogue. They were hatcheted, hacked and murdered in that holy place in an act of pure terror and senseless brutality and murder. I call on Palestinians at every single level of leadership to condemn this in the most powerful terms. This violence has no place anywhere, particularly after the discussion that we just had the other day in Amman.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/live/2014/nov/18/jerusalem-synagogue-attack-live-updates




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Checking in for a flight has never been the same since 1967

Terrorism's Christian Godfather - Time.com (http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1707366,00.html)

http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2008/0801/360_george_habash_0128.jpg George Habash attacks a U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace plan during a speech in Beirut, March 11, 1979

"Habash's group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palest ine (PFLP), pioneered the hi jacking of airplanes as a Middle East terror tactic — one eventually employed by the al-Qaeda hi jackers on 9/11 — way back in 1968 when three P F L P armed operatives commandeered an Israel i El Al ai rliner enroute from Rome to Tel Aviv. Checking in for a flight has never been the same since.

Many PFLP operations remain etched into history as some of the most infamous acts of terrorism. In 1970, PFLP terrorists hijacked four air liners at one time, flew three of them to Jordan, blew them up, and triggered the Black September civil war between Jordan's Hashemite monarchy and Palestinian guerrillas. In 1972, Japanese Red Army terrorists working with the PFLP massacred 24 people at Israel's Lod International Air port (now called B e n G u r i o n International Air port).

What led Habash, a Christian physician — hence his nickname al-Hakim or the doctor — into such a life, of revolution, of killing? The son of a well-to-do merchant, he was trained at the American University of Beirut, the most liberal university in the Middle East then as now. His background was almost identical to that of his best friend, Wadia Haddad, the No. 2 in the PFLP and the operational genius and passionate proponent of the group's terrorist acts. When I asked Habash that question during a series of interviews many years ago, he simply told me about his personal experiences when his family lost its home during israel's 1948 War of Independence, what the Palestinians call the C a t a s t r o p h e."

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Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank Clash
New York Times-Nov 11, 2014

Palestinian bus driver found hanged was murdered
Daily Mail-Nov 17, 2014
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Grenadine
11-18-2014, 10:57 AM
This is horrible. SO much ate in the world. :(

enhanced_deficit
11-18-2014, 12:39 PM
This is horrible. SO much ate in the world. :(

Yes, it is a viscious cycle of hate and religious/racial/land/economic extremisms.




Haaretz.com @haaretzcom (https://twitter.com/haaretzcom) · 3h 3 hours ago
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Netanyahu orders demolition of homes of 2 Palestinians behind Jerusalem attack

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But this kind of collective punishment seems like a one way street only applied when suspects are non-jewish:

Dad of Slain Palestinian Teen: Demolish Murder Suspects' Homes

EAST JERUSALEM - The father of a Palestinian teen who was burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists said justice would only be done if Israel demolished the homes those responsible for the killing. “Justice is when they destroy their houses just like they destroyed the houses of the suspects in Hebron,” Hussein Abu Khdeir said on Monday

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/west-bank-kidnappings/dad-slain-palestinian-teen-demolish-murder-suspects-homes-n149436

wizardwatson
11-18-2014, 01:22 PM
So Netanyahu conducts full-scale war against Gaza killing entire families of civilians in their homes, and then a few months later a couple guys stab and kill four people and it's a terrorist atrocity?

Propaganda is truly comical at this point. Even pointing it out makes me feel like captain obvious.

Everyone wants peace by way of the other side submitting. In other words, everyone wants war.

libertarianinternational
11-18-2014, 01:25 PM
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?

Sounds pretty libertarian to me.

enhanced_deficit
11-18-2014, 05:08 PM
So Netanyahu conducts full-scale war against Gaza killing entire families of civilians in their homes, and then a few months later a couple guys stab and kill four people and it's a terrorist atrocity?

Propaganda is truly comical at this point. Even pointing it out makes me feel like captain obvious.

Everyone wants peace by way of the other side submitting. In other words, everyone wants war.

Valid point.





Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?

Sounds pretty libertarian to me.

Going by nomenclature, a similar "liberation" group that seems to have relatively moderate christians/muslims than PFLP has an office in DC :


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New York - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairwoman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Allen West (R-FL) for their condemnation of President Barack Obama’s approval of the flying of the PLO flag over the PLO Mission in Washington, D.C. The PLO Mission raised the PLO flag for the first time on January 18.

New York - Congress Members Condemn Obama For Approving PLO Flag Flying In D.C. (http://www.vosizneias.com/74760/2011/01/31/new-york-congress-members-condemn-obama-for-approving-plo-flag-flying-in-d-c/)